jan 30, 2025 - Baldoni Offers Home to Acquaintance who Lost Theirs in Fires

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"This was a video I sent to @justinbaldoni and @emilybaldoni. If you don’t know, we lost our home in the Altadena fire a couple weeks ago. In the first 6 days, we slept in 5 different beds hopping around hotels and Air bnbs. Then I got a text from @justinbaldoni and @emilybaldoni offering their home to us. I don’t know them that well so I declined, didn’t feel comfortable with it. But he insisted since they were going to Hawaii to get away from their own shitstorm they’re currently going through. I told them I was with another family with two kids. He said bring them. So for the last week and a half two families have been staying in their home. And it has truly been a miracle and a gift. It has given us space, breath, and some peace. Kids are playing and laughing. We are sharing meals and able to reset and figure out our next steps. Their home has been and continues to be healing in so many ways.

Listen, no one is telling me to post this. Not him or his team. I am posting this is because it’s my experience of them. And as a therapist, character and values can not be compartmentalized. They are revealed in everyday life and ripple into all areas. I don’t know what happened on movie sets and board rooms. I was not there. But I do know how one kind and compassion family has helped us. And if you watch the video, this isn’t just about the offering of a home. The way they show up in the world has checked me in the way that I show up. So now I’m running my men’s group here this Sunday (what I used to run in my garage) to create the same space Justin and Emily to a dozen other men. And that is the power of the human exchange. Because we are all catalysts. What if Justin is the catalyst to cripple cancel culture, giving “It ends with us” a whole new meaning. I HOPE YOU SHARE THIS. Not to take a side. To get rid of how fast we throw stones on the internet and destroy real lives. All sides."

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